To mark the opening of the Shard, The Guardian have produced a 360-degree, augmented-reality panorama of London's newest view, from the building's public observation deck. HCM is nicely visible... You can scan London from their website.
Please join us on Saturday 23th and Sunday 24th June, between 11am and 4pm for our Open Weekend. There will be tea, coffee... and cake! Click here for directions
11:30 Vessels muster between Hammersmith and Battersea bridges 14:10 Queen arrives at Chelsea Pier 14:30 Queen boards Royal Barge. Steam train, Princess Elizabeth, whistles a salute from Chelsea Bridge 14:40 Jubilee Bells mark official start of Pageant 14:45 First vessel passes under Albert Bridge 15:00 Royal Barge joins flotilla, church bells ring out 16:15 HMS [...]
At 1pm and 7pm on Sunday 3rd June, there will be a performance in the rigging of one of the historic vessels at Hermitage. A fine-art and circus collaboration, produced by the Cultureship and supported by Hermitage River projects, the performance will be visble from the banks of Wapping at Hermitage Gardens and is free [...]
We're looking forward to the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant on June 3rd. It will feature 1,000 boats and be watched by over a million spectators, as it travels down the river between Putney and Tower Bridge. Taking about 90 minutes to pass any given point, the flotilla will be over seven miles long and – [...]
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We are running a Cafe and Christmas Market on the moorings from Saturday 3rd to Sunday 11th December. We will be open from 10am-4pm and late night on Wednesday until 7pm. (we wont be open on Friday 9th).
The Oral History Cafe (coffee, cream teas and home-made cake!) at HCM is open from 10th to 18th September, every day from 11am to 4pm, in the beautiful surroundings of Hermitage’s floating Pier House on the Thames. While you enjoy a cuppa and a cake, you can listen to tales and memories from A Sense [...]
The Summer Shindig will be on Saturday 9th July on The Green, Wapping Lane, and will coincide with the HCM Open Weekend (9th and 10th, 11am-4pm). Events include Wapping Olympics, riverboat cruises, history walks, live music, homemade food and clothes stalls. The Children’s Parade will be crowned by Shaun Austin, the Pearly King of Wapping who [...]
This evening the moon reached its closest point to the Earth for almost two decades (although the 0.3% difference would be hard to see!). A clear, still and cool evening meant that conditions were good for photographing from the moornings. (other links: guardian / wikipedia /astronomy / sky at night) (NB: there was no substantial [...]